Trade Quotes - Page 20

• Paris in the early morning has a cheerful, bustling aspect, a promise of delicious things to come, a positive smell of coffee and croissants, quite peculiar to itself. The people welcome a new day as if they were certain of liking it, the shopkeepers pull up their blinds serene in the expectation of good trade, the workers go happily to their work, the people who have sat up all night in night-clubs go happily to their rest, the orchestra of motor-car horns, of clanking trams, of whistling policemen tunes up for the daily symphony, and everywhere is joy.

  Nancy Mitford

  Morning, Coffee, Night

  Nancy Mitford (1963). “The Nancy Mitford Omnibus”

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• The ocean is the grand vehicle of trade, and the uniter of distant nations. To us it is peculiarly kind, not only as it wafts into our ports the harvests of every climate, and renders our island the centre of traffic, but also as it secures us from foreign invasion by a sort of impregnable intrenchment.

  James Hervey

  Ocean, Islands, Climate

  James Hervey (1856). “Meditations and contemplations: to which is prefixed the life of the author”, p.90

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• In response to a suggestion that total free trade would end in cheaper foreign products flooding the market and causing unemployment.

  Milton Friedman

  Suggestions, Unemployment, Ends

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• Complete free trade is not politically feasible. Why? Because it's only in the general interest and in no one's special interest.

  Milton Friedman

  Special, Interest, Free Trade

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• Trade him for a six pack; it doesn't even have to be cold.

  Buddy Ryan

  Nfl, Six Packs, Cold

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• One of the things we're going to have to discuss and debate is how are we striking this balance between the need to keep the American people safe and our concerns about privacy. Because there are some trade-offs involved. I welcome this debate, and I think it's healthy for our democracy.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Nsa, People

  "Around The World" with Michael Holmes, www.cnn.com. June 7, 2013.

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• Some in Washington say that you have to trade your liberty for security.

  Rand Paul

  Nsa, Liberty, Security

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• It is like when a player has a slump, we do not trade them, we coach them. It is the same with our employees. The best leaders come to the aid of their people, whose performance is down. Not come down harder on them.

  Simon Sinek

  Player, People, Leader

  "Why Leaders Should Always Eat Last – Simon Sinek Interview". Interview With Dan Schawbel, www.quickbase.com. February 19, 2014.

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• Twelve years ago I made a mock
  Of filthy trades and traffics;
  I considered what they meant by stock;
  I wrote delightful sapphics;
  I knew the streets of Rome and Troy,
  I supped with fates and Fairies--
  Twelve years ago I was a boy,
  A happy boy at Drury's.

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed

  Education, Fate, Boys

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• The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy.

  George W. Bush

  Expectations, Democracy, Liberty

  George Walker Bush, John W. Dietrich (2005). “The George W. Bush Foreign Policy Reader: Presidential Speeches and Commentary”, p.29, M.E. Sharpe

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• [On Hollywood:] I had gone there expecting to see parties that reflected the stock-in-trade of the movies - glamour. Instead, I found the same attitude toward parties that European peasants had for baths. It was something to be done methodically every Saturday night.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Attitude, Party, Night

  Elsa Maxwell (1955). “I married the world”

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• It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting.

  Elizabeth I

  Jest

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• business itself is now the most powerful force for change in the world today, richer and faster by far than most governments. And what is it doing with this power? It is using free trade, the most powerful weapon at its disposal, to tighten its grip on the globe.

  Anita Roddick

  Powerful, Business, Government

  Anita Roddick (2001). “Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world”, Conari Pr

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• If trade undermines life, narrows it or impoverishes it, then it can destroy the world. If it enhances life, then it can better the world.

  Anita Roddick

  Business, World, Ifs

  Anita Roddick (2001). “Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world”, Conari Pr

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• I think it is completely immoral for a shop to trade in the middle of a community, to take money and make profits from that community and then ignore the existence of that community, its needs and problems.

  Anita Roddick

  Business, Thinking, Community

  Anita Roddick (1994). “Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop”, Three Rivers Press

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• With fewer and fewer corporations controlling more and more of the world's trade, there is an ever greater need to know more about the practices of these large faceless organizations.

  Anita Roddick

  Practice, Organization, Needs

  "Business as Unusual, continued: deck here, too" by Anita Roddick, www.motherjones.com. January 19, 2001.

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• the most powerful bodies in the world, the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund, are also the least democratic and inclusive.

  Anita Roddick

  Powerful, Organization, World

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• Free trade holds much of the blame for continued international conflict. Markets are said to possess wisdom that is somehow superior to man. Those of us in business who travel in the developing world see the results of such western wisdom and have a rumbling disquiet about much of what our economic institutions have bought into.

  Anita Roddick

  Men, World, Blame

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• The trade agreement has become a rather distinct feature of the American labor movement. ... It is based on the idea that labor shall accept the capitalist system of production and make terms of peace with it.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Agreement, Ideas, Movement

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• there is nothing more American than the trade-union movement.

  Rose Schneiderman

  Movement, Unions, Labor

  Rose Schneiderman, Lucy Goldthwaite (1967). “All for one”

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• ... it is the spirit of trade unionism that is most important, the service of fellowship, the feeling that the hurt of one is the concern of all and that the work of the individual benefits all.

  Rose Schneiderman

  Hurt, Feelings, Important

  Rose Schneiderman, Lucy Goldthwaite (1967). “All for one”

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• While there have been many potential scenarios discussed, today we have only confirmed that we designed Xbox One to enable our customers to trade in and resell games at retail.

  Larry Hryb

  Xbox, Games, Retail

  "Xbox One and Used Games". majornelson.com. May 21, 2013.

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• It was pleasant to talk shop again; to use that elliptical, allusive speech that one uses only with another of one's trade.

  Josephine Tey

  Use, Jargon, Speech

  Josephine Tey (2013). “The Daughter of Time”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• Other powers will continue to enjoy an equal right to trade in and develop the natural resources of the occupied territory, for the economic development of which the investment of foreign capital is very desirable.

  Koki Hirota

  Development, Territory, Investment

  "British Relations with China". Book by Irving Sigmund Friedman, p.138, 1940.

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• The war industries in many countries and the enormous trade in weapons of all kinds generate corruption and fuel conflict throughout the world. The existence of an immensely powerful military-industrial complex constitutes a danger to democracy, both internationally and domestically, because it follows its own logic and operates independently of popular participation.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Country, Powerful, Military

  "Report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, Alfred-Maurice de Zayas". July 01, 2013.

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